Sentences with phrase «among vertebrates»

GSS (octanoyl) FLSPEHQ; sequence is conserved among vertebrates so works with both human and mouse.

Although many insects do this, manakins are unique among vertebrates in using stridulation, says Bostwick.

It has been implicated in the decline or extinction of up to 200 species of frogs alone; the IUCN has declared Bd to be «the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates in terms of the number of species impacted and its propensity to drive them to extinction.»

While that is close to true for coelacanths, other famous «living fossils,» which have the slowest molecular evolutionary rate among vertebrates, the Lingula genome has been evolving rapidly, despite the lack of changes in appearance.

Parthenogenesis is extremely rare among vertebrates, occurring in a mere 0.1 percent of all vertebrates.

Online today in Biology Letters, paleontologists describe nine couples of a species of aquatic turtle that perished while copulating and that were then preserved — the first such record among vertebrates, the researchers say.

«Among vertebrate tetrapods — things with four limbs — the axolotl is one of the best regenerators out there,» says Jeffrey Nelson, a former postdoctoral fellow in regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute.

The first two full genome sequences for snakes show that they have one of the fastest rates of genetic evolution among the vertebrates.

Florida scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens)-- endangered, 20 - centimeter - long bluish birds, first attracted biologists» attention almost 50 years ago because the young often stick around the nest to help the parents raise subsequent generations of offspring, a rare breeding arrangement among vertebrates.

Dinosaurs, among the vertebrates with the most species, offer a particularly rich field.

Fin whales seem to be unique among vertebrates because some of their nerves can be stretched out to twice their normal size

Now there are 30,000 ray - finned fish species in the ocean, making this class the most numerically diverse and ecologically dominant among all vertebrates on land or in the ocean.

First, the team isolated ORCs from newts, whose ORCs are the largest among vertebrates and about three times as large as those of humans.

This adaptation, unique among vertebrate life, also makes them a useful species for studying genetic differences in physical form and performance.

Segmentation is widespread among vertebrates and other organisms.

The new findings help to elucidate the evolutionary history of these structures among vertebrates.

«While hybrid plant species are very common, hybrid species among vertebrates are exceedingly rare,» says Associate Professor Jason Weir, senior author of the research.

Limb regeneration in plethodontid salamanders Among vertebrates, adult salamanders are unique in their ability to regenerate complex tissues, such as limbs.

The article constitutes a baseline for assessing that risk, but it also provides an enhanced understanding of how retroviruses have spread among vertebrates in the course of their evolution.

Looking at it as a substance, Creatine is a type of amino acid that is naturally occurring among vertebrates, and that includes our humans.

The gene is highly conserved among vertebrates — the human counterpart is about 98 % identical — but strikingly absent in invertebrates, which lack skeletons and, hence, bones, joints, and arthritis.

Hummingbirds have the highest metabolic rate among all vertebrates, with a heart rate above 1,200 beats per minute, allowing them to hover in front of the flowers while beating their wings up to 200 times every second.

These «virgin births» raised eyebrows because this asexual method of reproduction, called parthenogenesis, is rare among vertebrates: only about 70 backboned species can do it (that's about 0.1 percent of all vertebrates).

«Among vertebrate tetrapods — things with four limbs — the axolotl is one of the best regenerators out there.»

It's one of the few snakes to change its color — from a dark gray in the morning to a pale gray at night — and is reportedly «unique among all vertebrates» because of a split - top jaw that helps it grab its pray more easily.

(Among vertebrates, eusociality is found in just two species of African mole rats.)

Among vertebrates the Argentine lake duck is the leader, with a penis that can exceed the length of the bird's 16 - inch body.

«Organ development, especially the liver, is highly conserved among vertebrates — including zebrafish — and the mutations we create in zebrafish alter embryogenesis in a manner consistent with humans, making it an ideal model system to study diseases such as Alagille syndrome.»

Themis (thymocyte - expressed molecule involved in selection), a member of a family of proteins with unknown functions, is highly conserved among vertebrates.

Phylogenetic analysis shows that Tiki1 and Tiki2 orthologues are highly conserved among vertebrate and mammalian species although the Tiki1 is missing in rodents.

Among vertebrates, the fish model displays easy high density breeding (short generation time), favourable biological peculiarities (accessibility and transparency of the eggs, genome sequenced for both species used on the platform), original technological approaches (confocal and two - photon microscopy), as well as a wide accessibility to fully transparent larvae usable up to 5 days after fertilization.

Among vertebrates, adult salamanders are unique in their ability to regenerate complex tissues, such as limbs.